Andrew Robinson Leinbach

Author Corner: 9-25-2022

Only one chapter this week, but I think it's a good one.

I actually wrote three chapters this week, but A) I think it's a better reading experience to have this one be the last chapter of a week and B) I think I'm going to start releasing chapters slower than I write them.

This will give me the chance to work more on other projects without an extreme amount of context switching, projects like How to Murder a Fox and Eat God. And I really like the idea of working on something I cou...

Author Corner: 9-18-2022

Not much to say this week, as it was pretty normal.

I hope everyone enjoys the chapters!

--Thirteen Life Legion

Author Corner: 9-11-2022

I wrote two chapters worth this week, but it was two half chapters and one full chapter, so sadly you are  only getting one new chapter and a half chapter of text added into the previous content of chapter 185. (Sorry about that, but I thought it necessary to highlight the threat before Mila did her awesomeness.)

I also hope you all enjoy how Aalam will start changing from now on. I've had his character arc planned for a long time and it has been fun to see how frustrated people ha...

Author Corner: 9-04-2022

Two chapters of Shadow of the Soul King this week. I hope you all enjoy!

Also, far more fun, this week I've added the image generation software Midjourney Bot to the discord server. Please go over and check it out. Any pictures relevant to the story that are particularly good will be added to the novel on Scribblehub with attribution to you for having generated them.

Also, if anyone is interested of making artwork for any parts of the novel the old fashioned way, I think we'd all ...

Author Corner: 8-28-2022

Only one chapter of Shadow of the Soul King this week.

While I did know from the start how I wanted this chapter to go, emotional chapters like this are far more difficult to write.

I hope I did a good job.

Thanks,

Thirteen Life Legion

Author Corner: 8-21-2022

Two chapters of Shadow of the Soul King this week. And next week we finally get another good emotionally charged chapter from Isaiah's POV.

As for To Kill a Fox and Eat God, I'm finding it more difficult than I thought to context switch between the stories I'm writing. But, honestly, the bigger issue is I've been rereading works by I Eat Tomatoes and I've started on Swallowed Star, my personal favorite of his series, so I haven't been writing as much. I have, however, figured out exactl...

Author Corner: 8-14-2022

So, two chapters of Shadow of the Soul King this week. Please enjoy Mila doing Mila type social manipulation.

I've had a pretty bad cold this week, ruining my sleep, but I did manage to write 2.5 chapters, and that is probably what the average is going to be at least in the near future. Next up, Aalam's plan actually going into motion.

And next week I'll try to write another chapter of To Kill a Fox and Eat God on top of at least two chapters of Shadow of the Soul King.

Fina...

Author Corner: 8-07-2022

I started my job this week, ran my first ever D&D session, and got a bit sick, so, sadly, this week there is only one new chapter of Shadow of the Soul King.

I did figure out a good writing schedule for the future though, so I'm guessing we'll be averaging around 2-3 chapters in the near future. The main thing slowing down my writing this week wasn't the above but that I realized I need to start setting up the stage for the next arc in the climax of this one, and that required me to...

Author Corner: 7-31-2022

So, I wrote six chapters of Shadow of the Soul King this week, and there was also the extra chapter from last week which I wrote out of order, for a total seven chapters for everyone to enjoy.

We have now officially started the climax of this arc and I at least am excited.

I hope everyone enjoys!

--Thirteen Life Legion

Author Corner: 7-24-2022

First, four new chapters of Shadow of the Soul King this week and I will likely be posting the first chapter of a book I won't be writing for years sometime today or tomorrow, as that first chapter has my favorite opening and closing lines that I've ever written.

Also, I updated the numbering to combine the previous first three chapters into one, along with the old chapters 6 and 7.

Second, I accepted a new job and will likely be starting sometime next month, so my posting speed w...

Author Corner: 7-17-2022

Three new chapters of Shadow of the Soul King this week along with one new chapter of On How to Kill a Fox and Eat God.

This week has been very fun. Last Sunday, when I was worrying about getting new readers, ScribbleHub put Shadow of the Soul King on their home page and we got the most new readers ever from that site. It was kind of awesome.

And then Shadow of the Soul King has been on the home page about half the remaining days as well, which has been awesome for getting new rea...

Author Corner: 7-10-2022

So, only two chapters this week. Sorry.

I'd been holding out hope RoyalRoad might let me back on if I asked again after a month, but they didn't, giving me the same stock answer they have this entire time. So, I asked them to remove my story so they would stop profiting from my work and they did.

About the same time, I checked my analytics and realized I haven't gotten a single new patron this entire month. Every single 129 of you have been with me longer than that.

The main...

Author Corner: 7-03-2022

So, due to my work in figuring out everyone's new powers I was able to post 6 chapters this week! Yay!

Also, I will again be responding to anyone's questions on the discord between 8 pm Eastern Standard time and 8:30. I hope to see more of you there!

Thank you everyone for your support. And I hope you continue to enjoy.

Thirteen Life Legion

Author Corner: 6-26-2022

So, after dealing with everything this week, I think I still want to try doing this full time.

I'm just having way too much fun writing and it is so much fun deliberately not worrying about ratings and the like beyond my communication with my readers.

I will, however, diversify where I am posting. For example, after posting this, I will start the process of posting all my free chapters to Wattpad here, probably posting about ten a day: 2022-06-26 20:55:17 +0000 UTC View Post

Author Corner: 6-19-2022

So this week I was thinking a lot about marketing, in my opinion the worst part of being a writer.

As a reader, before I became a writer, I was never one to comment or leave ratings and reviews. But, after becoming an author, I've realized how much they can make or break a work.

While I was on vacation, my cousin's husband was talking about wanting to try and fund a rather awesome board game he made on kickstarter, but his research told him the best way to do well on kickstarter w...

Author Corner: 6-12-2022

I had planned not to write anything this week, but that didn't happen as I seem to enjoy writing too much. As a result, you are getting three new chapters this week for free. Yay!

As for how I'm doing, well, ups and downs. I went on vacation with my extended family and it was good I had them as I spent most days on the verge of entering into a deep depression and then going to spend time with them to stop myself from doing so. (My family is kind of great. Just wish a single one of them ...

Author Corner: 6-05-2022

So, this week started terrible and then got a lot worse.

First, I realized the cold I got last week was actually Covid. Then it was 90+ degrees out (I am American. I just use meters in my story because I studied physics.) so I was trapped in my new apartment by myself for days.

Then, Wednesday night, RoyalRoad decided to permanently ban me and I couldn't sleep until about 6 am, only getting about an hour and a half of total sleep that night, and Thursday was spent alternately pani...

Author Corner: 5-29-2022

This week I have been moving and then I got sick, so you might notice most of the chapters this week are on the shorter end, several quite close to the minimum word count I allow myself.

I still think they are pretty good though, and I'm enjoying what I have planned for this next arc, so I hope you enjoy!

Thirteen Life Legion

Chapter 140: Violet Mountain Blessed Land

Mila

“Well, this is interesting?” Nana Xara sent as Mila stepped through the portal to the Violet Mountain Blessed land. “This blessed land isn’t a natural wonder at all.”

Stepping from the top of the tall mountain on the Carium Galaxy Cluster's capital planet to the periphery of the Violet Mountain Blessed Land, Mila felt like she'd entered into a different universe. The Law suppression was higher, at the B rank planet level, making it instantly harder...

Chapter 139: Crafting

Aalam

Aalam was enjoying his new skills. Psyforce Construction (F-Epic), Mana Construction (F-Epic), and Qi Construction (F-Epic) all allowed him to use the given resource to mold a material into the shape of his desire. Psyforce Material Cleansing (F-Epic), Mana Material Cleansing (F-Epic), and Qi Material Cleansing (F-Epic) each allowed him to cleanse the material of impurities using their given resource. And Psyforce Material Strengthening (F-Epic), Mana Material Strengthening (F-Epi...

Chapter 138: Core Disciple

Mila

Dodging the claws of the horse-sized furred scorpion beast by a margin way too close for comfort, Mila sliced a small gash in the monster’s flank with her spear and then dodged backwards, avoiding the monster’s tail. Then, as the monster turned to face her, she flash stepped to the monster’s other side and gave it another small slice before dodging back again.

This was now the fourth E rank monster she’d fought by herself, if you counted the two in the soul net tests,...

Chapter 137: Sarra Lin’Talic

Mila

Mila had been quite lucky when it came to taking over the identity of Sarra Lin’Talic, one of 1,598 different female descendants of Epecteos older than 17 and under the age of 30.

First, the woman had been training up to be a lawyer, so, if she had managed to advance to F rank, the class she would have been aiming for was one Mila could quite easily fake. Second, Epecteos was her only living relative, most of the rest of her family having died of old age or from a major fac...

Chapter 136: A Gift From a C Rank

Bothil

“So, is there anyone promising in this backwater?” The emissary from the Hewin Kingdom asked as Bothil brought drinks for him and the Violet Mountain Sect’s recruiter, making sure to bow the entire time.

“Yes, Lord. Mr. Epecteos has recently taken an apprentice, a descendent of his and a prostitute he slept with a couple hundred years ago, and she is particularly talented, having passed the seventh mark.”

Every six years, before the arrival of the recruiters...

Author Corner: 5-22-2022

This week has been one of interesting and enlightening ups and downs.

On Tuesday, nineteen of you joined my patreon, the highest amount in a day I've ever had. And it was so exciting. Chapter 117 I think is one of the best chapters I've written and it was awesome to see how much people were excited by it.

Then the next two chapters dropped and I really didn't like them when I looked them over again, so I did something I'd never done before and edited both chapters 118 and 119 afte...

Chapter 135: Sensory Domain

Aalam

Watching Epecteos yet again dismantle the combined assault of both Isaiah, Diana, and Dioscuri at the same time, Aalam pondered if he should have gone with a combat class. Sure, the Laws he liked were much more suited for crafting than combat, and, sure, when he’d tried to copy Isaiah’s practice schedule using similar techniques with his bastard sword—stabbing and slashing at the air repeatedly for hours on end—he’d briefly considered slitting his own throat. Also, sure,...

Chapter 134: Masters’ Recommendations

Mila

Watching Epecteos’s aura when he was looking at Aalam, Isaiah, and her without her disguise skill for the first time was quite entertaining, but seeing how fast he could move when Nana Xara was telling her it was obviously not his max speed really put into perspective how weak they were in the wider scheme of things.

She’d already intellectually understood how huge the difference was, but she hadn’t seen a D rank fight since the third challenge of the tutorial, and that...

Chapter 133: Epecteos on Earth

Epecteos

Arriving on the home world of the young woman he now knew was named Mila, Epecteos almost immediately noticed three things. First, as Mila had promised, the world was E rank and had started its integration less than 2 years before. This meant, for the next 70 years, the ease of acquiring and advancing Laws would be equivalent to that of a B rank world, and that was huge, especially for someone like him who’d never been able to spend more than a year on even a C rank world in ...

Chapter 132: Violet Mountain Sect

Mila

Mila took a second to think before deciding the Violet Mountain Sect was going to be her target. “Is anyone able to watch us right now?”

“No. There’s a privacy formation that’s active and, though Bothil is spying on me for the Hewin Kingdom, he knows not to take things too far.”

“Got it.” Mila had already guessed Epecteos’s butler was an open spy of some kind, given she’d been able to see he had a master with her Noble’s ...

Chapter 131: Copies of the Twelve Element Primal Code

Mila

“Does it contain the version of the Twelve Element Primal Code for the path of the Heavenly Spark as well?”

The yellow and red eyes of Lord Epecteos Ka’Dravone widened as she asked the question, his aura showing surprise, and he was a bit slow to answer. “Yes. The first, second, third, fifth, and seventh levels are all undamaged.”

Mila took a deep breath. Just from this one cracked orb, she had everything Aalam would need at F rank other than...

Author Corner: 5-15-2022

So, there were two main interesting things that happened with writing this week.

First, I've finally introduced a character I've been thinking about for a while, Epecteos. I hope you all will enjoy having a mentor character who I actually feel comfortable giving a POV.

And everyone should be thankful to ManguKing for taking his privilege of being able to help name a character very seriously. Through our interactions when trying to name the character, I've also come up with some re...